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Extensity: Easily Enable & Disable Chrome Extensions

Joshua Lockhart — Thu, 23 May 2013 04:01:07 +0000

If you’ve ever visited MakeUseOf’s Best Chrome Extensions page, then there’s a high chance you have quite a few of them installed on your machine. There’s no shame in that! After all, that page has some really great downloads. However, it can get a bit cumbersome to have all of those extensions on your browser. Sometimes it [...]

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LoaderDroid: Get More Control While Downloading Files [Android]

Justin Pot — Thu, 23 May 2013 02:01:14 +0000

You don’t want that download on your phone to stop when you leave the house, but you also don’t want it to continue while you’re in transit – your data plan isn’t unlimited. If this sounds familiar, look into LoaderDroid. This Android download manager is packed with features, including the ability to pause and resume [...]

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myQuests: Manage Tasks In a Stylish Interface & Share Your Quests With Others [iOS]

moin — Thu, 23 May 2013 00:01:55 +0000

Are you looking for a stylish iOS application to manage your tasks and even share them? If yes, then what you want is a tool called myQuests. myQuests is a free to use smart device application compatible with iOS devices. The application is sized at nearly 9 MB and requires your iPod Touch, iPhone, or [...]

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LinksWatched: Get Warnings While Opening a Duplicate Tab In Mozilla Firefox

moin — Wed, 22 May 2013 22:01:08 +0000

Do you work with a lot of browser tabs at the same time? If so, then you will be aware of the fact that sometime we open up duplicate tabs because we lose track of all the tabs we have already got opened. Here to help you avoid duplicate tabs is something called LinksWatched. LinksWatched [...]

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ClippingMagic: Easily Remove The Background Of Any Image You Have

Umar — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:01:15 +0000

If you have photographed something and you want to upload it online to sell it, it is probably best to remove the background of the image. Typically, people already have this in mind and take the picture of the object against a white background or a plain colored background. But if you have forgotten to [...]

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Design Something: A Chrome App To Create & Share 3D Design Models

Umar — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:05:21 +0000

Design Something is a free to use browser application that lets you create 3D models with ease. The application comes for Google Chrome and once you install it, a shortcut for it appears on the New Tab page. Clicking on this shortcut will take you to the PublishYourDesign’s model creation interface. You will find a [...]

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CupCloud: Store Your Computer Usage Sessions & Easily Load Them On Other Machines

Umar — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:01:04 +0000

CupCloud is a free to use web service that is currently in its beta. The application provides a very efficient solution to an inconvenience that many of us face – resuming our work on a different computer than the one we are currently using. Even if it is not a different computer that you are [...]

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TuneBash: Stream Music On The Go, Follow Favorite Bands & More [iOS]

Dave LeClair — Wed, 22 May 2013 02:01:08 +0000

Are you looking for a slick iOS application that lets you stream some of your favorite music, follow the artists you enjoy, keep track of when the bands you like are coming to your town, and lots of other cool stuff involving music? Who wouldn’t love an app that lets them enjoy their music in [...]

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WigFlip: A Collection Of Convenient Web Apps That Will Benefit Graphics Designers

Umar — Wed, 22 May 2013 00:01:18 +0000

Graphics designers have to play with images and designs on a daily basis. While the overall design and ideas need to be unique, there are lots of little things that designers find themselves doing on a frequent basis. For example, you could find yourself creating rounded corners. Or you could even find yourself making a [...]

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Call Filter Alarm: Choose People Who Can Call To Wake You Up [Android]

azim — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:01:41 +0000

A lot of people use their smartphone as a people alarm clock, meaning that they let other people call them at a specified time in the morning or day to wake them up. However, if you simply leave your smartphone turned on when you go to sleep, there is a risk that anyone can call [...]

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PDF Slicer Free: Use Your iPhone To Easily Edit PDF Documents

moin — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:01:26 +0000

Do you often work with PDF files on your iOS device? Are you using a premium application in order to edit your PDF documents? If yes, then you should definitely check out PDF Slicer Free because you will enjoy what it has to offer. PDF Slicer Free is a free to use smart device application [...]

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SignEasy: Easily Sign Digital Documents On Your iOS Device

moin — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:01:06 +0000

Have you ever hurried to your boss’s office to get a document signed and then forgotten to bring the document? If yes, then you are fully familiar with how difficult it can be to remember to carry the physical documents that you require. This is particularly true when you want to get something signed – [...]

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Twipster: Turns Twitter.com Into a Minimalist Twitter Client

Justin Pot — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:09:35 +0000

Strip down Twitter to it’s bare essentials. If you’re tired of the social network best known for simplicity cluttering its website with sidebars and background, Twipster was designed for you. By developer Brent Jackson, this browser plugin – offered for Safari and Chrome users – turns Twitter into what it should be: a list of [...]

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Drive Converter: Online File Conversion For Google Drive

Justin Pot — Tue, 21 May 2013 02:05:38 +0000

Convert files from one format to another, all on Google Drive. With Drive Converter you don’t need to download or sync a file to your computer in order to convert it to something else. With support for converting documents, music and video from one format to another, Drive Convert is a great tool if you [...]

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Recent Menu: Find Recently Accessed Files, Folders, & Apps (Mac)

Joshua Lockhart — Tue, 21 May 2013 00:01:48 +0000

You have a history page for your web browser. Why can’t you have one for your computer as a whole? Recent menu is a handy little Mac app that does just this. Its u-turn icon fits snuggly alongside the large assortment of apps you likely have in your menubar (which may actually be a downside [...]

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AutomateIt: Automate Tasks On Your Android Device

azim — Mon, 20 May 2013 22:07:34 +0000

AutomateIt is an Android app that is designed to make your life easier by automating various tasks on your Android device. It lets you define how your device should behave in response to an event on your Android device by creating a rule. For example, you can make your device automatically increase the volume when [...]

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HangoutMagix: Quickly Design Custom Graphical Overlays For Hangouts On Air

Justin Pot — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:02:05 +0000

If you use Google Hangouts On Air, you probably use Hangout Toolbox and it’s Lower Third feature. And if you use Lower Third, you probably wish it were more customizable. Well, it is – you can use it to overlay graphics. The problem: if you want a really unique look, you need to design the [...]

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Tabman Tabs Manager: View All Your Open Tabs In A Vertical List [Chrome]

azim — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:03:33 +0000

It is always a problem when you have too many open tabs in your browser. You delay closing them and at one point you simply have too many of them to be able to even read the webpage titles for each tab. If you also have this problem, check out Tabman Tabs Manager. It is an [...]

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Melt: Exchange Interesting Photos With Random People

azim — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:01:16 +0000

Melt is a free app for iOS that lets you have fun and meet people by exchanging your most interesting photos from your iPhone. It is built on a very simple concept – you send an interesting photo to the world and get one back in return. The more photos you send, the more you receive. [...]

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Coffee: Open Files With Your Portable Applications Instead Of Default Associated Programs

azim — Mon, 20 May 2013 02:01:44 +0000

Portable applications are programs that you can carry on a removable drive and run them from any computer. They are handy in situations when some of the apps you use are not available on the host computer and you don’t have time to download and install the required application from scratch. In this case you [...]

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